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Offline Paul

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Things that make you go hmmm....
« on: December 17, 2003, 03:43:05 PM »
I was in a local dealer today - oh by the way, Kelly's Kawasaki right here in Mesa, AZ is knocking $1000.00 off the price of everything on the floor, AGAIN. The '04 KX500 is $3899.00 right now :wink:

Oh back to my original train of thought... I was speaking with the general manager up at Valley Kawasaki and I asked him about the KXF450 and when it was due out. Low and behold, the honeymoon MUST be over... He informed me there would be NO joint venture between Kawasaki and Suzuki on the 450. Kawasaki is over 90% of the KXF250 and saw no need to work jointly on the 450 with Suzuki.

So... Manny... what can you tell us about that one? Inquiring minds want to know.

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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2003, 12:23:16 PM »
The Kawi/Suzuki 450F deal went south due to some bad feelings over the DRZ-KLX400 AND the RMZ/KXF...Kawi was given a B/P of a motor. PERIOD. The amount of Development and its associated costs were, also, a bit of a sore point with Kawi...you see...there's a budget issue with development costs...

Problem #1(some folks would tell you that there's no relation between one problem and the other...ever worked with Hi-Level Japanese Exec's or American Marketing Types?):

Kawaski AND the dealers were PISSED at the limited (Initial) availability and late delivery of the KLX400...especially the Street model...dual-sport is a hot segment in CA.

Problem #2: There appears to be some "Bad Blood" over the Kawasakification of the KXF/RMZ. Appearantly there's a "Who's your daddy" thing going on over at Suzuki.

BTW, I got a lot of this from "Marketing" types, so use your salt liberally!

Funny-thing...noone wants to hear anything about this issue or create a KXF category over at TT..they don't get it, I guess...The KXFers have to post on a Suzuki Cat/Thread! Hulk's been doin' it...he..well...and I am trying to get him some Green Plastic...but...well...he...HE BOUGHT A YELLOW KAWASAKI :oops:

At least he's Green at heart and tryin' to get his Green Groove back on!

I'm gonna go retrieve the "Bubba's New Gig" thread on the KXF Cat. News on Bubba's KXF riding problems...Thump, thump, clunk...Stay tuned!

Manny

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Things that make you go hmmm....
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2003, 09:35:50 AM »
I always heard that it would only be a joint venture in MX bikes with the 250F and they would develop there own big thumpers seperatley.Think I read that at Racer X before the 250F was even built,oh well.

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Things that make you go hmmm....
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2003, 10:29:01 AM »
That was the story in the beginning...it was "Changing" as the 250f got under-way. As I said, it's been told both ways.

You never know...one might end up "Buying" the other. KHI is a realllly big company...

Manny

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